November 26, 2025 • 11 mins
Seattle Kraken Head Coach Lane Lambert joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the team’s success this year in close games, the parity in the league right now, the method of 3v3 in overtime, Jared McCann’s status, and Thanksgiving plans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lane.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Lambert Cracking head coach normally will join us on Wednesdays
at three forty five, but we got him here right
before face off tonight against Dallas. Pregame show starts at
six point thirty and the head coach is joining us
right now on the radio show live from cp A Lane.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Coach, how are you, man? What's going on? Good? Good guys?
How are you guys? We're good. I appreciate this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's talk about that little roadie you had man two
to one and one. By the way, I just want
you to know the team has been playing lights out
since you took over this radio show with me and Dick,
and I want to know, we both want to know
if this thing goes nuclear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Man, if you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just start to skyrocket and just start dominating the NHL,
how much credit are you going to give me and Dick,
because I think we'll deserve it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, it was the pep talk you guys gave me
right like you know it was.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You came, you came down to the office, and first
of all, you gave me a little what's what and
what's for and who's who?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And then and then you tried to build me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Then you tried to build me back up, and and
so I'm I'm I'm doing I'm doing my best to
take your advice and and we'll go from there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
If us a good coaches do right, we just tear
it down to the stunts and then we built you
back up. Lane Lambert joining us said, coach, you know,
this is a very similar roster to last year. And
I was taking a look at where the Kraken were
after twenty two games last year, and they had eleven wins.
Now you have eleven wins after twenty two games this year.
But the huge difference is they had ten losses. You
(01:34):
only have five losses. You've been able to turn regulation
losses into overtime games. How have you been able to
get to that point? Is there a method to the
madness of just making sure you can get that extra
goal to at least get a point?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, you know, I think it's no secret that I've stressed,
you know, for our team that you know, our identity
is going to be, you know, giving our goalie the
best environment possible to play in, and which means, you know,
we just have to be sound defensively. If you look
at the National Hockey League and you know, and certainly
early on there may be some games where you get
(02:14):
you know, seven threes and you know there was an
eight four game the other night or whatever. But you
know a lot of times, if you if you can
get to three in the NHL, you're gonna win a
lot of hockey games because it's so tight, and even
more so this year with the parody in the league,
which you know has been talked about quite a bit,
(02:34):
you know, so I just think, you know, if you
look at the if you look at the record last year,
and you look at the record this year, and whatever
you want to say about each one of them, we
just you know, we are playing better defensively, and at
the end of the day, that's that's a bit of
a formula for success, and we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, we have I think last.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Year they had probably four or five more veterans on
their team, and we brought in some young guys here,
and those guys are are you know, they're contributing and
they're developing and they're learning on the fly here right
now as well. So what appears to be maybe a
similar roster of last year isn't quite the same roster.
And you know, we're our guys are doing a good
(03:14):
job of taking ownership of how we want to play well.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lei Lambert with us cracking head coach normally would join
us on Wednesdays at three forty five, but Lane decided
he wanted to talk to us minutes before face off
tonight against Dallas. So we appreciate that coach. Not a
lot of coaches in the NHL would do that, so
thank you. But we're all waiting to see what's going
on with Jared McCahon, right. I mean, you've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We've talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It that Hey man, this is your points leader from
last year that has not been available for well over
a month. What's the plan if there is one for
him tonight?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, it's you know, you said it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You preempted that by saying that's our points leader from
last year, and so we're real excited.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You know that he's back.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Was he was in practice yesterday, full practic this.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, we are monitoring him.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's you know, he's still on IR and whether or
not he comes off IR is a game time decision here.
But we desperately need, you know, his offensive output and
we're looking forward to getting them back. Like I say,
he's getting real close.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Coach. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Eighteen teams in this league within three points of each other.
Do you did you anticipate this log jam of teams
all year? And why is there so much parody in
twenty twenty five, twenty six?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know what, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, you always have parody, You always have a
bit of.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A log jam.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But at the same time, you know, there's there's you know,
two or three teams that are maybe in each conference,
so a total of five or six or seven that
are kind of out of it. And I wouldn't say
right now, but like falling behind right now. We're not
really seeing that this year. And I think one of
the reasons is, you know, the teams that haven't been
(04:58):
very good.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For you know, for or five years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
If you want to talk about, say, you know, you're
Anaheim Ducks, let's just use them for an example. You know,
they've they've had high draft picks, and and now those
draft picks are getting opportunities to.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Uh to develop. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know, they're in their third and fourth seasons in
the National Hockey League.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This is a this is not an easy league. To
play in.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's the best league in the world, and so for
a young guy coming into this league, it takes a
little bit of time. And uh, you know some of
these teams, the Utahs and things like that, these teams
are you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Seeing the the young guys.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In their third and fourth years now and they're having
some some successes. So uh, it's really it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And you're you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I mean, you have a good week and you you
just stay in pace, and if you have a bad week,
you fall out of pace. So you have to be
real careful and every game is so important.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Coach, we got a little bit of a dichotomy between
the way you guys score in the first versus the
way you score in the third, Right, I mean, I
look like I mean, the stats don't lie that you
guys are one of the better teams in the league
in the third period. But I think, if I'm not mistaken,
you'd still be looking for maybe a little bit of
a faster start. And I get I guess my question is,
really twofold, would you rather have that reversed where maybe
(06:16):
you come out hot, but you're fighting for your life
for the third or would you rather have it this
way if you had to choose one or the other.
Obviously you want to play great in both periods, But
how much on top of that do you think coaching
Jared mccannon coming back, all of that will potentially fix that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, you're you're right, like, it's it's it's.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Not something you want to you want to pick and choose.
You know, you'd like to be good in both periods.
We feel like, of course, uh you know, we feel
like there's been some games where we started a little slow.
You know, the good news is and and I'll say
it this way from a positive standpoint, you know, our
players have we've we've some comeback wins this year, and uh,
(07:03):
you know, we've showed a lot of resilience and a
lot of heart and determination in the third period.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you know, we we just like that's.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
The that's a little bit of the challenge here for
our hockey team is and I can't even say play
sixty minutes with our team. We we have to count
on playing sixty five. We've we lead the league in
the NAA we in overtime games, so uh, you know,
we're we're in every game. We just we'd like to
see us start a little a little better, at least
(07:32):
the goal differential or our goal scoring start a little better.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And uh, in the first period.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
What's the reason for all the overtime games? When you
have three more overtime games this year, you'll already match
all of last season. So what's the reason for the preponderance?
And and do you like three on three hockey or
would you prefer it's old school?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, the three on three hockey is extremely exciting,
right and you know, as a league, it doesn't matter
who we are, and certainly you know we we care
about our fans a lot, obviously, and so you know,
those three on threes are super exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Uh. You know, I like the way we do it in.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Playoffs where it's you know, just sudden death and it
goes to the end and it's five on five hockey.
But you know, I have a lot of time for
three on three in the regular season, for sure. But
you know, we're we're in every game, and you know,
like I I've always said, and our guys have really
embraced the fact that we're hard to play against. And
(08:34):
so when you are, you know, the games are tight
and you know, it's just at times it just ends
up being that way. And you know, I'm sure we'll
play in a lot more overtime games this year potentially,
certainly we'd like to finish it off before the end
of regulation. But at the end of the day, uh,
you know, points are crucial and you've got to find
(08:56):
a way to get them and collect them every night.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, The most important question before tonight's game, what
percentage of your roster would you say is Canadian?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Off the top of your head. By the way, just
take a guess.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What percentage of the percentage sixty percent, seventy percent, what
percentage ballpark do you think is Canadian?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I'd probably say sixty, probably sixty sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So for all the turkeys from Canada and your locker room,
is tomorrow just another day for you guys? I know
you got your own Canadian Thanksgiving that you do in October,
But what's what's tomorrow like for you guys because you
got the day off?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, we you know what we I think everyone that
plays hockey here in the US and there's nothing like
United States Thanksgiving, Like it's an incredible holi holiday and
it blows Canadian Thanksgiving out of the water in terms of,
you know, the hype that it gets. And I am
(09:57):
I am a US citizen now, so came a citizen
last summer. So I am jacked up about Thanksgiving. It's
one of the greatest, greatest holidays we have.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And you know, hopefully people will show up to the
game tonight because isn't this the best apparently the most
busy night to go out to night before Thanksgiving in
the US for going.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Out and whatever, drinking and pubbing and whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To call it. Yeah, drinking, watching. It's a great holiday,
there's no question about it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well listen, man, first of all, welcome to citizenship. Belated
Welcome to citizenship number one and the number two tomorrow,
as I like to call it, Eat, drink, watch football,
and pass out to day. All right, so enjoy it.
Go get a win tonight and we'll talk it a
week man.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Thanks coach, beautiful, Thanks guys, have a good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You bet you too, Leanne Lamberg, coach of the crack
And all right, that's it for us. Let's get out
of here, cracking stars tonight coming up from CPA pregame
next face off at seven. You guys have a great
holiday tomorrow. We're back on Monday afternoon, three o'clock, right
here on ninety three three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Bye.
Lane.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Lambert Cracking head coach normally will join us on Wednesdays
at three forty five, but we got him here right
before face off tonight against Dallas. Pregame show starts at
six point thirty and the head coach is joining us
right now on the radio show live from cp A Lane.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Coach, how are you, man? What's going on? Good? Good guys?
How are you guys? We're good. I appreciate this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's talk about that little roadie you had man two
to one and one. By the way, I just want
you to know the team has been playing lights out
since you took over this radio show with me and Dick,
and I want to know, we both want to know
if this thing goes nuclear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Man, if you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just start to skyrocket and just start dominating the NHL,
how much credit are you going to give me and Dick,
because I think we'll deserve it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, it was the pep talk you guys gave me
right like you know it was.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You came, you came down to the office, and first
of all, you gave me a little what's what and
what's for and who's who?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And then and then you tried to build me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Then you tried to build me back up, and and
so I'm I'm I'm doing I'm doing my best to
take your advice and and we'll go from there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
If us a good coaches do right, we just tear
it down to the stunts and then we built you
back up. Lane Lambert joining us said, coach, you know,
this is a very similar roster to last year. And
I was taking a look at where the Kraken were
after twenty two games last year, and they had eleven wins.
Now you have eleven wins after twenty two games this year.
But the huge difference is they had ten losses. You
(01:34):
only have five losses. You've been able to turn regulation
losses into overtime games. How have you been able to
get to that point? Is there a method to the
madness of just making sure you can get that extra
goal to at least get a point?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, you know, I think it's no secret that I've stressed,
you know, for our team that you know, our identity
is going to be, you know, giving our goalie the
best environment possible to play in, and which means, you know,
we just have to be sound defensively. If you look
at the National Hockey League and you know, and certainly
early on there may be some games where you get
(02:14):
you know, seven threes and you know there was an
eight four game the other night or whatever. But you
know a lot of times, if you if you can
get to three in the NHL, you're gonna win a
lot of hockey games because it's so tight, and even
more so this year with the parody in the league,
which you know has been talked about quite a bit,
(02:34):
you know, so I just think, you know, if you
look at the if you look at the record last year,
and you look at the record this year, and whatever
you want to say about each one of them, we
just you know, we are playing better defensively, and at
the end of the day, that's that's a bit of
a formula for success, and we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, we have I think last.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Year they had probably four or five more veterans on
their team, and we brought in some young guys here,
and those guys are are you know, they're contributing and
they're developing and they're learning on the fly here right
now as well. So what appears to be maybe a
similar roster of last year isn't quite the same roster.
And you know, we're our guys are doing a good
(03:14):
job of taking ownership of how we want to play well.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lei Lambert with us cracking head coach normally would join
us on Wednesdays at three forty five, but Lane decided
he wanted to talk to us minutes before face off
tonight against Dallas. So we appreciate that coach. Not a
lot of coaches in the NHL would do that, so
thank you. But we're all waiting to see what's going
on with Jared McCahon, right. I mean, you've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We've talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It that Hey man, this is your points leader from
last year that has not been available for well over
a month. What's the plan if there is one for
him tonight?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, it's you know, you said it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You preempted that by saying that's our points leader from
last year, and so we're real excited.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You know that he's back.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Was he was in practice yesterday, full practic this.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, we are monitoring him.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's you know, he's still on IR and whether or
not he comes off IR is a game time decision here.
But we desperately need, you know, his offensive output and
we're looking forward to getting them back. Like I say,
he's getting real close.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Coach. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Eighteen teams in this league within three points of each other.
Do you did you anticipate this log jam of teams
all year? And why is there so much parody in
twenty twenty five, twenty six?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know what, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, you always have parody, You always have a
bit of.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A log jam.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But at the same time, you know, there's there's you know,
two or three teams that are maybe in each conference,
so a total of five or six or seven that
are kind of out of it. And I wouldn't say
right now, but like falling behind right now. We're not
really seeing that this year. And I think one of
the reasons is, you know, the teams that haven't been
(04:58):
very good.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For you know, for or five years.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
If you want to talk about, say, you know, you're
Anaheim Ducks, let's just use them for an example. You know,
they've they've had high draft picks, and and now those
draft picks are getting opportunities to.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Uh to develop. Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know, they're in their third and fourth seasons in
the National Hockey League.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This is a this is not an easy league. To
play in.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's the best league in the world, and so for
a young guy coming into this league, it takes a
little bit of time. And uh, you know some of
these teams, the Utahs and things like that, these teams
are you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Seeing the the young guys.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In their third and fourth years now and they're having
some some successes. So uh, it's really it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And you're you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I mean, you have a good week and you you
just stay in pace, and if you have a bad week,
you fall out of pace. So you have to be
real careful and every game is so important.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Coach, we got a little bit of a dichotomy between
the way you guys score in the first versus the
way you score in the third, Right, I mean, I
look like I mean, the stats don't lie that you
guys are one of the better teams in the league
in the third period. But I think, if I'm not mistaken,
you'd still be looking for maybe a little bit of
a faster start. And I get I guess my question is,
really twofold, would you rather have that reversed where maybe
(06:16):
you come out hot, but you're fighting for your life
for the third or would you rather have it this
way if you had to choose one or the other.
Obviously you want to play great in both periods, But
how much on top of that do you think coaching
Jared mccannon coming back, all of that will potentially fix that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, you're you're right, like, it's it's it's.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Not something you want to you want to pick and choose.
You know, you'd like to be good in both periods.
We feel like, of course, uh you know, we feel
like there's been some games where we started a little slow.
You know, the good news is and and I'll say
it this way from a positive standpoint, you know, our
players have we've we've some comeback wins this year, and uh,
(07:03):
you know, we've showed a lot of resilience and a
lot of heart and determination in the third period.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you know, we we just like that's.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
The that's a little bit of the challenge here for
our hockey team is and I can't even say play
sixty minutes with our team. We we have to count
on playing sixty five. We've we lead the league in
the NAA we in overtime games, so uh, you know,
we're we're in every game. We just we'd like to
see us start a little a little better, at least
(07:32):
the goal differential or our goal scoring start a little better.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And uh, in the first period.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
What's the reason for all the overtime games? When you
have three more overtime games this year, you'll already match
all of last season. So what's the reason for the preponderance?
And and do you like three on three hockey or
would you prefer it's old school?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, the three on three hockey is extremely exciting,
right and you know, as a league, it doesn't matter
who we are, and certainly you know we we care
about our fans a lot, obviously, and so you know,
those three on threes are super exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Uh. You know, I like the way we do it in.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Playoffs where it's you know, just sudden death and it
goes to the end and it's five on five hockey.
But you know, I have a lot of time for
three on three in the regular season, for sure. But
you know, we're we're in every game, and you know,
like I I've always said, and our guys have really
embraced the fact that we're hard to play against. And
(08:34):
so when you are, you know, the games are tight
and you know, it's just at times it just ends
up being that way. And you know, I'm sure we'll
play in a lot more overtime games this year potentially,
certainly we'd like to finish it off before the end
of regulation. But at the end of the day, uh,
you know, points are crucial and you've got to find
(08:56):
a way to get them and collect them every night.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, The most important question before tonight's game, what
percentage of your roster would you say is Canadian?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Off the top of your head. By the way, just
take a guess.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What percentage of the percentage sixty percent, seventy percent, what
percentage ballpark do you think is Canadian?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I'd probably say sixty, probably sixty sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So for all the turkeys from Canada and your locker room,
is tomorrow just another day for you guys? I know
you got your own Canadian Thanksgiving that you do in October,
But what's what's tomorrow like for you guys because you
got the day off?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, we you know what we I think everyone that
plays hockey here in the US and there's nothing like
United States Thanksgiving, Like it's an incredible holi holiday and
it blows Canadian Thanksgiving out of the water in terms of,
you know, the hype that it gets. And I am
(09:57):
I am a US citizen now, so came a citizen
last summer. So I am jacked up about Thanksgiving. It's
one of the greatest, greatest holidays we have.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And you know, hopefully people will show up to the
game tonight because isn't this the best apparently the most
busy night to go out to night before Thanksgiving in
the US for going.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Out and whatever, drinking and pubbing and whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To call it. Yeah, drinking, watching. It's a great holiday,
there's no question about it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Well listen, man, first of all, welcome to citizenship. Belated
Welcome to citizenship number one and the number two tomorrow,
as I like to call it, Eat, drink, watch football,
and pass out to day. All right, so enjoy it.
Go get a win tonight and we'll talk it a
week man.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Thanks coach, beautiful, Thanks guys, have a good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You bet you too, Leanne Lamberg, coach of the crack
And all right, that's it for us. Let's get out
of here, cracking stars tonight coming up from CPA pregame
next face off at seven. You guys have a great
holiday tomorrow. We're back on Monday afternoon, three o'clock, right
here on ninety three three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Bye.
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